Study Guide
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Flexion posturing | Patient arches the back and flexes the arms inward toward the chest.
-Sign of serious head injury
-aka decorticate posturing
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| Aspiration | Breathing a substance into the lungs
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| Flail segment | 2 or more adjacent ribs that are fractured in 2 or more places
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| Chief complaint | "Why did you call the ambulance"
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| Battle Sign | Black and blue discoloration to the mastoid area behind the ear, late sign of skull or head injury
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| Paradoxical motion | movement of a section of the chest in the opposite direction from the rest of the chest during respiration
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| Modified secondary assessment | physical exam focused on a specific site. no serious mechanism of injury, responsive, good metal status, alert and oriented.
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| Rapid secondary assessment | head to toe physical exam thats swiftly conducted on a trauma patient who has a significant mechanism of injury, altered mental status, not responsive
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| Primary assessment | portion of the assessment conducted immediately following scene size up for the purpose of discovering immediately life threatening conditions
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| Patent | open, not blocked
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| Cerebrospinal fluid | Fluid that surrounds the cushions the brain and spinal cord
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| AVPU | Alert, responds to Verbal stimulus, responds to Painful stimulus, Unresponsive (levels of responsiveness)
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